It took me way too much time to realize that, whatever is to be done, career should be absolutely sacred. Please note that I'm choosing the word sacred as a language figure but without any exaggeration.
Also, if you enjoy your work enough, your description becomes unfair. You do not feel it like sacrificing life in order to pospone living.
Also, that suggest that there is some hedonistic way to live there that is also easily disappointing.
Humans needs challenges and responsibility to channel their energy. Who doesn't have it, manages to find it in the form of problems (or even psychopatologies).
Career is a trajectory. A mission. Way way more than your current employment.